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

