The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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