The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

