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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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