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...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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