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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

