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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

