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...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

