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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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