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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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