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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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