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

