The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
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
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

