The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City