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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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