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
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

