When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didnโt know where I was. I certainly didnโt...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

