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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown