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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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