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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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
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