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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

