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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

