The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

