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
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...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
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...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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