The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

