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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

