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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

