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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

