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 and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

