The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

