The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

