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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

