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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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