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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
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...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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