The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
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
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...

