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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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