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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

