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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

