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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

