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

