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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
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...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

