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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

