It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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?
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...

