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