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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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