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

