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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

