The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

