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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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