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

