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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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