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 Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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