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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown