Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Twin Cities Area
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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