The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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