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

