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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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