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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

