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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
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...
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

