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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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