The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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