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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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