The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

