The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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