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