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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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