The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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