The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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