The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...

