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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

