The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House 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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia 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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City