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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

