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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
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...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

