The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...

