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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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