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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston