The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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