The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

