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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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