The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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