The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
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...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

