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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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