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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

