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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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