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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
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 End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

