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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

