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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
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...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

