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
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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