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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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