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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

