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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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