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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

