The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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