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...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

