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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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