The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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