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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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