The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
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Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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