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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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