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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

