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