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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

