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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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