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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown