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
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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