The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

