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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

