The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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