The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Twin Cities Area
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

