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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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