The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

