The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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