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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldnโt consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 donโt...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

