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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

