Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City