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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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