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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

