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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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