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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown