The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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