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...
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

