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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

