The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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