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...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

