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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

