The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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...
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
Old Brewery In Preston