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...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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