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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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