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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

