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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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