The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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