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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...

