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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

