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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

