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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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