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...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

