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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown