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
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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