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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

