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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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