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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
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
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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