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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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