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...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
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