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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

