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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

