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...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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