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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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