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