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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown