The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

