The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
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North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

