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

