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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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