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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

