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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

