The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
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...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

