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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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