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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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