The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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