The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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