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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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