The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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