The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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