The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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