The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

