The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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