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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
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