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...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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