The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown