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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

