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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

