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...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown