The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

