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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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