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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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