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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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