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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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