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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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