The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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