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
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
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