The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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