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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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