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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor 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...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City