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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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