The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

