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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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