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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
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...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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