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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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