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...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

