The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

