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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

