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...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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