The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
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