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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery sits at the base of a bluff along the Root River, a site known for its scenic...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

