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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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