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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
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