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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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