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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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