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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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