The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
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...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City