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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
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
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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