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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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