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...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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