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
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston