The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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