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...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...

