The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

