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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

