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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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