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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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