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 and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
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...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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