The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

