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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery sits at the base of a bluff along the Root River, a site known for its scenic...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul