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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown