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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
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 Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

