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