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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
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