The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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