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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

