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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

