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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...

