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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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