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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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