The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
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...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

