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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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