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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...

