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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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