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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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