The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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