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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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