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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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