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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston