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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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