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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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