The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

