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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

