The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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