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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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