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...
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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