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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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