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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

