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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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