The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

