The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
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
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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