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...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
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...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston