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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

