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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
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Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown