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
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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
