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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
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...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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