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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown