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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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