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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

