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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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