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

