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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

