The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

