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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

