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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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