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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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