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
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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