The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...

