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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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