The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
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...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

