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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

