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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

