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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

