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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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