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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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