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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
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...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

