The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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
Old Brewery In Preston