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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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