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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House 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...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...

