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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

