The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

