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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

