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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
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...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

