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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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