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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

