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
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

