The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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