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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

