The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

