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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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