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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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