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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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