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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

