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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

