The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

