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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston