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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
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...

