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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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