George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Twin Cities Area
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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