The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

