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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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