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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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