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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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