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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

