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