The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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 Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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