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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

