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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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