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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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