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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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