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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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