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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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
Old Brewery In Preston