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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

