The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
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History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown