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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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