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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

