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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
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 Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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