The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

