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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

