The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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