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...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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