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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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