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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

