The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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