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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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