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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

