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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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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 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?
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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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