The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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