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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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