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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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