The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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