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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

