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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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