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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

