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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
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...

