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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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