The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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