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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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