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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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