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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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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