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
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul