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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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