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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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 Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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