The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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