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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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