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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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