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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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