The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
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Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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