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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

