The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale 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...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

