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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
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...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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