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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

