The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown