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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...

