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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
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...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul