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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

