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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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