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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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