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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

