The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

