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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

