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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...

