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