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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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