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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

