The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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