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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

