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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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