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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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