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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

