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