The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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