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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

