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...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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...
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul