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...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

