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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
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...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
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