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