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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

