Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Twin Cities Area
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
