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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

