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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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