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
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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