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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

