The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...

