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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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