The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

