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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor 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