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 and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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