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...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...

