The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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