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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
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
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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