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...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

