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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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