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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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