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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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