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