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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

