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
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

