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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

