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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

