The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown