The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

