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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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