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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

