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

