The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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