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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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