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...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
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...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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