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