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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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