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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

