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...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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