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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

