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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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