The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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