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
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

