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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

