The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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