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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston