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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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 Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown