The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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