The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

