If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

