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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

