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