The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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