The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge 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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston