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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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