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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

