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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown