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...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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