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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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