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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

