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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital 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