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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

