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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital 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