The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
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Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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