The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

