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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...

