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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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