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

