The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

