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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

