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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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