The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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