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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

