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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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