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...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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