The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

