The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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