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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
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...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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