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
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
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
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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