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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
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