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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

