The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the 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
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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