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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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