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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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