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
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown