The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
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...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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