When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didnโt know where I was. I certainly didnโt...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the stateโs empire builders, St. Paulโs elite built their...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butlerโs interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

