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
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 Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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