The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown