The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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