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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

