When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City