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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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