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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown