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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

