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...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston