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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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