The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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