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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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