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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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