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
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston