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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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