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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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