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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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