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...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

