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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...

