The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
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