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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

