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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

