The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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