The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
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