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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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