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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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