The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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