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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown