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...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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