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
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

