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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
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...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

