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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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