The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
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