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