The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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