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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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