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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

