The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

