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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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