The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...

