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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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