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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

