The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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