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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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