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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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
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