The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
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