The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital 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