The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
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...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

