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...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
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
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

