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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

