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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...

