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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

