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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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