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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

