The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

