Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Twin Cities Area
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
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...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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