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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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