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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor 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