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...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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